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re: Why doesn't the Thin Red Line get more respect?
Posted on 2/10/18 at 7:42 am to Brazos
Posted on 2/10/18 at 7:42 am to Brazos
I was someone that preferred it to SPR, which I also loved, when it came out.
But time has exposed it as a pretty conflated jumble of characters and messages that don't all fully develop or make a lot of sense as a whole.
That's ok and each piece has a lot of merit in places and obviously it is a great visual experience with even plenty of good old fashioned battle scenes.
But the poetic voice overs can become a little tiresome and again don't always do the best job of reflecting what we are supposed to take from the scene it is narrating imo.
Still, I own it and still watch and enjoy it from time to time but not nearly as much as SPR which I watch once a year.
All of this is a very long winded Malick-ian way of saying it just hasn't aged as well as SPR.
But time has exposed it as a pretty conflated jumble of characters and messages that don't all fully develop or make a lot of sense as a whole.
That's ok and each piece has a lot of merit in places and obviously it is a great visual experience with even plenty of good old fashioned battle scenes.
But the poetic voice overs can become a little tiresome and again don't always do the best job of reflecting what we are supposed to take from the scene it is narrating imo.
Still, I own it and still watch and enjoy it from time to time but not nearly as much as SPR which I watch once a year.
All of this is a very long winded Malick-ian way of saying it just hasn't aged as well as SPR.
This post was edited on 2/10/18 at 7:44 am
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Posted on 2/10/18 at 7:06 pm to Tiger Voodoo
The scene in Saving Private Ryan where where Mat Damon describes him and his brothers having sex w/ the ugly girl is cringe worthy. The last stand scene at the end is also pretty unbelievable. SPR is the overrated movie but great action/war scenes.
Posted on 2/10/18 at 11:32 pm to Tiger Voodoo
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But time has exposed it as a pretty conflated jumble of characters and messages that don't all fully develop or make a lot of sense as a whole.
The plot of the film was really basic, but the need to show various things and send various messages kind of overwhelmed what is a beautiful, but ultimately a movie that failed to live up to its extraordinary potential. The opening scene carries the entire reputation of the film, despite its beautiful flaws.
The Thin Red Line is a more brutal, direct film - it fits more the expectations of fans of Band of Brothers (which was made largely by the SPR team, by the way) - itself a more sincere, logical story, since it was based heavily upon a true one with many of the participants' input.
For my money, The Longest Day is a better movie, start to finish, top to bottom. SPR is gutwrenching, but sends all the wrong messages about war (particularly that war), and ultimately doesn't make a lot of sense.
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